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Yeah, the memory of Jonestown is still fresh for some people.
State of the Union: Powell on Sotomayor, affirmative action 2009
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Upon arrival in Jonestown, the couple felt deceived.
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When Ryan and the others arrived in Jonestown, Jones was taking massive amounts of drugs and falling apart both physically and mentally, Reston said.
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The abstract idea of Jonestown is transformed into something deeply personal and profoundly moving.
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But the larger lesson of Jonestown is that its leader, who billed himself as a socialist, stepped into a breach left by an American antipathy to socialism so profound and generalized, it readied a space for that ideology's most perverted expression.
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Wonder what kind of drink dispensers they used in Jonestown with the grape koolaid ...
What its like to have a mind of a writer wen_spencer 2006
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“Kool-Aid drinker” is a reference to the horrible mass suicide by followers of “preacher” Jim Jones in Jonestown, Guyana, in November 1978.
Think Progress » O’Reilly: “If Rove gets indicted, that could bring down the Bush administration.” 2005
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What could be more forceful than the words of individual photographers like Tim Chapman, who says: How would people believe that 912 people killed themselves in Jonestown, Guyana, or millions of Jews were killed by the Nazis -- unless they saw photos?
Behind the News liz donovan 2004
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has been shot and killed while in office, and he was ambushed Nov. 18, 1978, on a mission to investigate human rights violations in an American cult that had relocated to Guyana, in what became known as the Jonestown Massacre.
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Band members Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion are seamlessly inserted into archival footage of Jim Jones' Peoples Temple and its ill-fated commune in Guyana, known as Jonestown.
Turnstyle: Cults Video Director Finds Muse In Jonestown Massacre Turnstyle 2011
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